Stefan Procopiu

Stefan Procopiu was an romanian physicist.

Procopiu was born in 1890 in Brlad, Romania. His father, Emanoil Procopiu, was employed at
the Brlad courthouse. His mother, Ecaterina Tac was the daughter of Gheorghe Tac.
In 1919 he obtained a scholarship to continue his studies in Paris, attending courses of famous
scientists, such as Gabriel Lippmann,Marie Curie, Paul Langevin, Aim Cotton. On 5 March
1924, Procopiu obtained the title of doctor in physics with the thesis "On the electric birefringence
of suspensions" presented to a commission including professor Aim Cotton as coordinator
and Charles Fabryand Henri Mouton as cross-examiners.
After his return to Romania on January 15, 1925 professor of
the gravitation, heat and electricity department of the "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iai,
replacing his former teacher Dragomir Hurmuzescu, who had retired., Procopiu coordinated the
department until his retirement in 1962.At the same time he was appointed professor at
the "Gheorghe Asachi" Polytechnic Institute of Iai . In 1939 tefan Procopiu published
his treatise on "Electricity and Magnetism", followed in 1948 by his monography on
Thermodynamics.

The magnetic moment of the electron

The first important paper by tefan Procopiu is "Determining the Molecular Magnetic Moment by
M. Plancks Quantum Theory". After studying Plancks quantum theory and Langevins
magnetism theory, established the magnetic moment of the electron and determined the physical
constant of magnetic moment, named magneton. tefan Procopiu published his results two years
before Niels Bohr made the same discovery independently.
Continuing his studies, in 1954 he established a method for the experimental determination of the
magneton, which he improved in 1963.
tefan Procopiu also worked on wireless communications and in 1913 published a paper on
Experimental Research on Wireless Telegraphy. In 1916 he invented a device for locating and
establishing the depth of bullets in the bodies of the wounded soldiers.
In 1921, Procopiu discovered and analyzed in the Physics Laboratory of Sorbonne University a
new optical phenomenon which consisted in the longitudinal depolarization of light by
suspensions and colloids.
In 1930, the occurrence was designated as "Procopiu Phenomenon" by prof. Augustin Boutaric.
Part of this research was included in Procopiu's doctoral thesis.

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